The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Expelling Bob Menendez from the Senate
After a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) of 16 charges in a nine-week corruption trial, the senator and his New Jersey congressional colleagues called on him to resign. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, was one of the first lawmakers to react to the ruling on Tuesday, calling on his fellow Democrats to […]
US senator Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts in corruption trial | Bob Menendez
Numerous Democratic leaders on Tuesday called for Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey politician, to resign after he was found guilty on all charges in a nine-week federal corruption trial in New York City. The jury found the 70-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee guilty of 16 charges, including accepting bribes of […]
Chuck Schumer demands Bob Menendez step down from Senate after conviction on 16 counts of corruption
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, called on Bob Menendez to resign after a jury convicted him on all 16 charges in a federal bribery case. Prosecutors said Menendez used his powerful position as a senator to provide favors to Egypt and other clients. The charges include bribery, acting as a foreign agent, extortion, […]
Sen. Bob Menendez Found Guilty on All Counts in Federal Corruption Trial
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was found guilty on all charges in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday. ABC News report: Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars and mortgage payments in exchange for political influence […]
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez FOUND GUILTY on all counts in federal corruption case
A jury on Tuesday found Sen. Bob Menendez (Dynamo County, J.D.) guilty of multiple counts related to bribery and corruption charges. Jurors had been deliberating for 13 hours since Friday on the 16 counts brought against Menendez. The charges against Menendez include conspiracy, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent for […]
Bob Costas Renews Call for Biden to Step Down: In ‘Serious Decline’
Prominent sportscaster Bob Costas continued to call for President Joe Biden to step down from office and allow a younger candidate to run, citing his “significant decline.” Appearing on CNN on Saturday, hours before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Costas said Biden’s performance in the first debate showed he was in “serious […]
Top moments from Bob Menendez’s bribery and corruption trial
The bribery and corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has featured everything from gold bars to meat monopolies, silver bells to Cuban quirks, Mercedes convertibles to Egyptian camels. The trial took nine weeks. It was complex and delved into serious charges against the longtime lawmaker, his wife, two New Jersey businessmen on trial with him, […]
BOB RUBIN: The Dollar Is In Trouble And The Stakes Couldn’t Be Any Higher
The Republican National Committee’s platform committee adopted a new GOP platform on Monday that promises to do the following if the Republicans win the House, the Senate and the White House: “KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVECURRENCY.” As someone who manages hundreds of millions of dollars all day long, I must say this is music […]
Sen. Bob Menendez ‘has faith’ as jurors deliberate in corruption case
He praises them. New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said he was relying on his faith on Friday as he left a Manhattan federal courthouse, where jurors in his high-stakes bribery trial had deliberated for three hours without reaching a verdict. “I have faith in God and in the jury,” the embattled Democrat said in English […]
Rampant infighting among top brass reportedly plagues LA women’s soccer team eyed by Disney’s Bob Iger, wife Willow Bay
It looks like Disney CEO Bob Iger will have to clean up some mess again after he and his wife, Willow Bay, acquired majority control of the Los Angeles women’s soccer team. The couple, who reportedly agreed to buy a majority stake in Angel City FC for $50 million, will take over a team rife […]